Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Background The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly Alliance Defense Fund, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that describes itself as “the world’s largest legal organization advancing every person’s God-given right to live and speak the truth” with […]

Andrea Jenkyns

Credentials  Background Dame Andrea Jenkyns is the Reform UK mayor for the Greater Lincolnshire, having been elected in a local election on May 1, 2025. She was previously the Conservative MP for […]

Tim Dunn

Tim M. Dunn Credentials Background Timothy (Tim) Dunn is the CEO of CrownQuest Operating, an “operating entity for oil and gas exploration and production ventures” in Midland, Texas. According to Dunn’s biography on his website, after graduating from Texas Tech University […]

Kent Lassman

Image by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kent Lassman Credentials Background Kent Lassman has been the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) president and CEO since 2016. Lassman joined CEI from the lobbying firm DCI Group, where he […]

Russell Vought

Russell Vought Credentials Background Russell (Russ) T. Vought is director of the White House budget office. The Senate confirmed Vought in February 2025. Vought was also the deputy director […]

Prosperity Institute

Prosperity Institute Background The Prosperity Institute (PI) was founded as the Legatum Institute (LI) in 2007 by the Legatum Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dubai-based investment firm the Legatum Group. It named changed to The Prosperity […]

Paul Marshall 

Credentials Background Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall is a multi-millionaire hedge fund manager and media mogul who is the owner of right-wing media outlets UnHerd and The Spectator,2Mark Sweney. “GB News investor Paul Marshall seals £100m […]

McCann

Background McCann is a global creative solutions company. It has worked for at least 11 fossil fuel industry clients, including Aramco, the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitter,2“Cumulative operational and product emissions from the largest carbon producers worldwide from 1854 to 2022,” Statista, […]

Kathleen Sgamma

Kathleen M. Sgamma Credentials Background Kathleen M. Sgamma is the president of the Western Energy Alliance (WEA), a group representing hundreds of oil and natural gas producers in the western United States that has historically lobbied against restrictions on the industry.1Eric Lipton and Hiroko Tabuchi. ”Driven by Trump Policy Changes, Fracking Booms on Public Lands,” The New […]

Chris Wright

Chris Wright Credentials Wright’s LinkedIn account also lists his graduate work under education: Background Chris Wright is a fracking executive nominated to run the Department of Energy (DOE) by President-elect Donald Trump. Wright is CEO of Colorado-based Liberty Energy and has founded and held […]